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INCLOSURES 
I N nothing, I think, has modern gardening departed 
so far from the gardening of the old fashion, as 
in the matter of inclosure. Of course there has been 
good reason for it, in the advance of civilization: yet 
I cannot but feel it is the one great loss of all; and that 
we shall never have gardens worthy of the name until 
it is, in a measure, repaired. Anyone who has ever 
dwelt behind the security of even a common wire 
fence, snug enough at bottom and high enough at top 
to keep out both two- and four-footed prowlers, will 
appreciate the truth of this, I am certain. 
Whatever the present attitude on the subject may be, 
however, it is an absolute certainty that no old garden 
was ever without its inclosure. And so instinctive was 
the impulse to set apart, that inside the main defense 
which shut out the rest of the world secondary divi¬ 
sions were again divided, and these in turn outlined. 
Thus from the great wall or palisade right down to 
the fragrant, stubby little edging of sheared thyme 
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